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I'm using Win7x32 Enterprise and Kaspersky Enpoint Security.
The funny thing is that the connection I'm trying to make works when I'm next to the device (same WAN) through wifi.
But if I try to connect to the same device through a special program and device through the internet (still wifi) the below happens.
My colleague with 184.108.40.206 can connect without any problems to the same with the same startup parameters.
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Leonardo DiCaprio narrowly escaped with his life after a shark-diving adventure turned extra-dangerous and left him fighting for survival in a cage with a hungry predator.
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Parks advocates scored a major coup in 2009 when a court ruled that Union Pacific had to sell the former Alameda Belt Line property back to the city at 1924 prices. Now city leaders are asking the public what kind of park they should build on a major portion of that property. The city is hosting community design input meetings for a new Belt Line park from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, February 9 at the Albert H. DeWitt Officers Club and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, February 13 at City Hall.
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Schools leaders are getting ready to draft a long-term facilities plan for the first time in half a century – and also, to figure out how to pay for the schools the plan says Alameda will need. Meanwhile, Alameda's teachers made a fresh public push for a new contract at Tuesday night's Board of Education meeting, saying they'd like better pay and benefits.
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The right to the truth was first recognized in cases of missing and disappeared persons. Its importance in that context has not abated, but the right has evolved and its application has been extended to other gross violations of human rights.
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The event will consist of short, "lightning" presentations held in an informal social setting followed by questions from the audience. Food and Drink will be available and there will be plenty of time to mingle before and after the presentations. The event will open with remarks from Michael Bartner, Vice President of Slow Money, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to catalyzing investment in local food systems.
Five Seacoast entrepreneurs will then provide presentations on their plans to start or expand their local business. The line-up is comprised of the following presenters: Andre Cantelmo of Heron Pond Farm, a sustainable agricultural farm that plans to open a new farm stand in Kensington; Allison Grappone of Nearby Registry, an online gift registry and e-commerce service that allows you to select gifts from local independent businesses and nonprofits; Curtis Gould, The Soup Guy, a maker of natural, gluten free and locally-sourced soups; Steve McPhee, a custom cabinet and furniture maker specializing in eco-friendly design; and Josh Henry of 7th Settlement Brewery and Pub, a start-up nano-Brew Pub planning to open doors in downtown Dover.
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This installment of Dick Move of the Week takes us east of the mountains, where the population may be sparse, but apparently the dicks are just as plentiful.
Crooks and thieves aren't necessarily known for their manners. Inherently, all of them are dicks. It goes with the territory. But, as the Spokesman Review detailed Thursday, some thieves are bigger dicks than others. And because of this, one of them takes home the coveted Dick Move of the Week award.
As the Spokesman-Review's Kip Hill reports, Stephen Crowder's wife, Nancy, passed away in 2008 after a battle with ovarian cancer. The couple was married for over 20 years. Since Nancy's passing, Crowder had kept his wife's ashes in a box, tucked away in the bedroom closet.
Until this week, that is, when Crowder discovered it missing. In the process of renovating his house, Crowder arrived Tuesday to find a backdoor open and his belongings in disarray. Along with some antique jewelry and a television, Nancy's ashes were gone.
"It's almost like she died all over again," Crowder told the Spokesman-Review. "Because she was gone unexpectedly, and now she's gone unexpectedly."
Wow. Total Dick Move, thieves.
Despite all of it, Crowder, who's preparing to remarry, is taking the high road. He doesn't want the thieves to go to jail or be pelted by shit-covered rocks – like they deserve. Rather, he tells the Spokesman-Review he just wants his deceased wife's ashes back.
Doesn't seem like too much to ask. In the spirit of the holidays, Ebenezer Scrooge, and the Grinch, perhaps this Dick Move of the Week winner will redeem himself in the end.
Let's hope so, but not hold our breath either. Unfortunately, that's not usually how dicks operate.
Dick Move Runners Up:
Discrimination: The folks in charge over at Eastside Catholic High School deserve major Dick Move consideration this week for forcing the resignation of vice principal and swim coach Mark Zmuda for nothing more than marrying the person he loves … who happens to be a man. According to the school, Zmuda's gay marriage doesn't "comport with the [teachings] of the church." If this column was called "Bigoted Bullshit of the Week," Eastside Catholic's administration would be the unquestioned winners.
Snow dusting: Total Dick Move, Mother Nature. Go big or go home.
Duck Dynasty: More like Dick Dynasty, amirite?
Elf on the Shelf: Just because.
This: Is the very definition of a Dick Move – literally.
Lastly: A special Dick Move of the Week goes out to Seattle Weekly's departing Managing Editor Dan Person, who's leaving the paper to move to some godforsaken town in Eastern Washington we've never heard of. Sure, Person and his wife are excited about this new chapter in their lives, and it seems like a positive move for them both … but still. Total Dick Move, you two! Today is Dan's last day and we're sad. And hungover from getting him drunk last night … which just makes the pain worse. Y U Got 2 Leave Us, Dan!?!
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Don of KIRO Radio's Ron & Don Show
SPD's Jim Pugel
Steve Sarkisian
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It's been quiet around my blog for the last month, mostly because IRL I've been super-extra busy. If you've read my blog for any amount of time, you know, Constant Reader, that I'm pretty opinionated and I'm finally taking the time to voice my opinion on an increasingly crazy situation.
For my out of town groupies, here's the gist: An African-American man is suspected in up to 4 rapes in a predominately white, middle-class, Kansas City neighborhood in the last several months.
The news media is making a circus out of it.
Vigils have been held to catch the creep.
Vigilantism is making the situation worse.
Some bloggers are blaming racism.
Innocent black guys are being given the stink eye.
As a white woman who lives in the Waldo/Brookside area, and as someone who was raped (when I was 19), I'm begging the craziness to stop. This is getting increasingly ridiculous. I have several women friends that live in the area. Curious about what they thought, I asked them their opinion about the situation. We're all 20s-40s, white, women who are often home alone late at night. In my case, I'm married and my 5 yr old daughter is home with me until Handsome returns around 11 pm.
Here's the crazy thing: None of us are freaking out about the potential of being raped by this guy, but the media coverage is upsetting us. Yes, they need to catch this guy, but the media is causing a lot of fear. When you're afraid of something, stupid shit starts happening.
It's a miracle that no one was hurt when the idiot vigilante followed that innocent African-American guy all the way to KCK because he thought he'd found the rapist. I feel sorry for all of the men being given dirty, suspicious looks. I wish to publically apologize to all of you for my neighbors' stupidity.
To say this has anything to do with race is ridiculous and you're a race baiter. Stop it. You're just making it worse. I don't care if the guy is purple, yellow, green or brown, rapists come in all sizes, shapes and colors. It's an identifying factor. Deal with it. In order to catch a criminal, you need a description.
Equally, it's stupid to say that just because this is happening in one of the nicest parts of the city to live in, it's getting all this media attention. People in Waldo/Brookside don't typically follow the "Don't Snitch" credo when it comes to crime. We live in an area where people take pride in their community and if something happens, we speak up and demand that it stop. Community activism is alive in our area. We call the police and demand media attention.
What does scare me is that 70% of all rapes go unreported. If that's true, are there more victims out there? Is he just targeting Waldo or are we the only ones speaking up? Is he also targeting women east of Troost and they aren't reporting it because of the asinine "Don't Snitch" crap?
I refuse to get worked up over this situation and live in fear. My friends feel the same way. Other than double checking the door locks and outside lights at night, and making sure that my cell phone is next to me when I go to bed (before Handsome gets home), I just make sure that I'm aware of my surroundings.
These are all things that women should be doing any way.
I live in between houses with two very noisy dogs. I figure between their barks and my fierce attack cats, I'll be fine.
If you see this guy, don't approach him, call the police.
Friday, February 26, 2010
A White Woman From Waldo Speaks Out
It's been quiet around my blog for the last month, mostly because IRL I've been super-extra busy. If you've read my blog for any amount of time, you know, Constant Reader, that I'm pretty opinionated and I'm finally taking the time to voice my opinion on an increasingly crazy situation.
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There still exist the sick hatreds against cannabis sativa, psilocybe semilanceata, erythroxylum coca, and there is one plant that receives the coveted prize in pure hate, nicotiana tabacum.
What is so strange about this hatred is that this same plant was integrally important for European colonialism and industrial capitalism in world history. European and Euro-American civilizations could not have progressed as they did without the native american gift of tobacco plantations, working slave labor to death, and then, the tobacco processing, factory work, building even larger ships, international marketing and sophisticated advertising.
How did such an enjoyable American plant associated with native community peace, and smoked through pastes, leaves, hand-made pipes and even chewed, transform into such a European commodity fetish under global capitalism?
Nicotiana tabacum was once a naturally growing, medicinal and spiritual plant for America's native nations. European colonial invaders, investors, and murderers transformed the plant into an export drug of commodity for elite consumption under the inexhaustible profit-making schemes of capitalism.
Columbus and his invading men did not just murder, imprison and sell native slaves on the island of Cuba during the 1490s. They also spotted some, 'naked' Carib natives smoking a herb placed in some leaves. The scent was quite intoxicating and the natives seemed to enjoy the community based smoke. They did not inhale, yet the effect of the plant was calming after they had eaten some fresh, delicious food, and the herb even had a sensual effect on the smokers. The European imperial-colonial invaders found another gift.
They stole the native plants from the Caribbean islands and transported them to Europe. The Europeans took a peculiar liking to them. In the 1500s, the Portuguese colonial invaders in the Americas, called Bresil, began to cultivate the native crop. It seemed to grow well in sub-tropical and tropical climates. When introduced into European aristocratic, social-parasite gardens inside of the great landed estates, tobacco plants sprouted quite well. Tobacco could also grow in mild, temperate, oceanic climates. The European elites were on to something.
During the seventeenth-century, some monarchs, political thugs and tyrants began to hate the plant. King James Stuart of England, Sultan Ammurath IV of Ottoman Turkey, and Czar Mikhail Romanov of Russia, represented some of the anti-tobacco elite crowd, while Pope Urban VIII actually had a papal bull written against the plant in the 1640s.
Yet the European colonial empires of Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal had succumbed to the gods of capital. Each empire set up their own royal monopolies for the plant. The annoying question was where to grab the labor in order to work long hours in the hot sun: picking, drying, curing and transporting the leaves. The Europeans had made themselves the self-proclaimed owners of nicotine tabacum, so at first, they used local penal labor to work them to death in order to enrich the tobacco lords or planters. Where could one find a continual supply of slave labor?
An even greater economic windfall emerged through such an American cultivation – the theft of human chattel, or the kidnapping, murder, transporting and working to death of African slaves.
The Portuguese had first established their monopoly of the Blackened Brown Gold during the late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century, (about 1560-1660). Due to the importance of such American export plantation crops, such as tobacco, the English, Dutch, (the Netherlands), and the French established their own 'African' slave monopolies. A plant associated with community peace and enjoyment, took on the ominous tones of legal crime, kidnapping, imprisonment, mass murder, genocide and working people to death. Tobacco actually helped birth mercantile capitalism.
Mercantile Capitalism implied royal European controls of an export commodity, such as tobacco, sugar, coffee, tea, chocolate, salt and kidnapped African slaves, while it established permanent credit to slave plantation owners in order for them to purchase a continual supply of Africans and other penal slaves, (the European looking, or white ones). The American plantation-slave owners and European tobacco traders-ship investors made their profits through inflated price sales in the home or European metropolitan markets.
Meanwhile, European navies and missionaries tried to open greater markets for the American products in the Asian continents. Slowly, nicotine snuff and tobacco smoking had spread into the Islamic world culture, then Persia-Iran, the Indian sub-continent, Central Asia and ultimately into the Far East, China and even Japan.
In the eighteenth-century, the European tobacco manufacturers developed the smaller 'cigarette' varieties, and for those that preferred to chew, snuff boxes. All of this cigarette finery was for elite European consumption.
Elaborate, silver inlaid snuff boxes entered the world of fashion conscious, French aristocratic-parasite bums. In Britain, gentlemen established new cultural activities, fashions and spaces besides fencing, hunting, dances, card games, tea and reading – the smoking parlor with the smoking jacket.
A good tobacco smoke was always perfect after a good meal, with some intoxicating liquor or with some fine coffee. European grifters-Latin lovers, such as the Venetian, Giacomo Casanova, also took up the habit, and so tobacco grabbed some important cultural associations within European culture: sensuality, refinement, power and a coolness under pressure.
Most importantly, King Tobacco had changed the colonial-metropolitan relationships. The Scottish Tobacco Lords transformed the city of Glasgow into the premier tobacco import-export port. These same 'lords' would build their mini castles along Jamaica and Virginia Streets.
Those same streets had the infamous names of the most infernal, African slave killing centers in world history.
Virginia, once a colonial outpost of disease and hardship, had become the British Empire's premier, tobacco plantation colony on the Tidewater during the 1700s. Is it any wonder that most of America's revolutionary founders came from this proud plantation region made rich through the marvelous drug of tobacco?
During the same eighteenth-century, the Spanish colonial authorities had established the first urban factory for cigar-cigarette paper rolling and export packaging in Mexico City. Earlier, the Spanish had established the city of Seville as the premier processing center for cigars. For over a century in colonial Spanish America, and well before Metropolitan Europe, both men and women had been openly smoking tobacco cigarettes on the public streets. American fashion and prominence had come to Europe – mainly through the marvelous and medicinal herb of nicotiana tabacum.
Throughout the nineteenth-century, the 1800s, tobacco manufacturers had developed better technology in curing and rolling for three particular products: cigars, cigarettes, (blond and black versions), and chewable snuff.
The first tobacco companies consolidated themselves, while they competed with each other for the monopoly share of the smokers and chewers' markets. This modern tobacco industry also encouraged the adulteration of tobacco through chemical engineering in order to hold their monopolies. Tobacco products even had molasses, rum, opium or honey mixed into the final product.
Tobacco eventually became part of modern, European and Euro-American cultural life. Royalty, lazy aristos, middle class-respectable clerks, and working class dock workers took up the smoking habit. The problem was that many of the men inhaled the nicotine fumes. Certain political-economic elites, Women Christian Temperance clubs and health workers noticed the persistent coughs of regular smokers. The modern anti-smoking movement had begun.
Meanwhile, tobacco shops and kiosks became one of the standard sights found on most city streets around the world, and where they also featured other items for sale, such as newspapers, books, shaving kits, pipes, rolling papers, pen knives, board games and playing cards.
In the twentieth-century, the 1900s, the tobacco industry transformed the world of advertising and mass marketing. A few tobacco monopolies had controlled the sale of 'cigarette packs" and they made fortunes on the drug.
Smoking found associations with soldiers during World War I and for most wars afterwards. In the 1920s, cigarette companies targeted their advertising to the 'new woman,' thanks to the propaganda genius of the Austrian-American, Edward Bernays. Hollywood's golden age featured most of their stars regularly smoking the sacred plant. Can anyone forget the famous pictures of Humphrey Bogart and James Dean without cigarettes dangling from their mouths?
While tobacco use seemed to sell exponentially – and especially in Asia, the anti-smoking forces mercilessly attacked the drug. Medical experts exposed the correlations between nicotine use and cancer, emphysema and other incurable maladies.
An anti-smoking coalition emerged. This motley prohibitionist group included family survivors of smokers who had died bad deaths, medical professionals, public education school administrators, and Christian religious groups,. Political-economic elites also joined their ranks, since they wanted better workers not taking so many smoking breaks, inclusive of less corporate health care costs.
Tobacco prohibitionists began to push for greater anti-smoking legislation. By the 1980s, they had succeeded in seizing the State.
In some urban cities in the United States, smoking is highly expensive, heavily taxed, and there are petty, minute federal, state and municipal laws that dictate where a person can or cannot smoke in public. Any street vendor trying to sell cheap cigarettes from another state, now has the felon tag of a 'contrabandist,' and can end up in prison or even have the cops murder him. The US government has a well-armed regulatory agency against tobacco, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, or the ATF, and so the US government has declared another war – this time against tobacco.
Yet, millions of young women, and especially models, smoke tobacco in order to help them not gain weight. Rock artists, punk musicians and other fringe artists regularly flaunt the burning cigarette in the mouth while they play their guitars brutally. Even some right-wing political activists have proudly taken the puff. The cigarette has its own sexual fetishes, and due to the US government's war against it, now has associations with rebellion and freedom.
The history of nicotiana tabacum shows us once again, the absurdity of the human condition under civilization. A plant that once helped natives in the Americas ensure community peace and unions through the spiritual worlds, has undergone a terrible and irreversible chemical-medical-industrial-state regulated surgery.
European colonial elites had imposed this condition. They did this without the consent of the native victims of their genocides. The addictive desires for naked profits enabled another genocide against kidnapped Africans.
Most assiduously, certain corporations have claimed their own patents or imposed 'ownership,' on this natural plant, while they have mixed harmful chemicals into the industrial melting pot, creating a type of fuming poison. Finally, the contemporary State, ruled and administered by shameless sociopaths, constantly devises sinister means in punishing the working class smokers of the drug.
Tobacco was never the original enemy to stamp out. The sinister legacies of our European colonial settler states, once again, carry all the historical blame.


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Apple Cinnamon Puffs
When I was growing up on a farm, my mother always made homemade bread and rolls. Walking home from school, I think I could smell the bread baking a mile away! I've always liked to try new dishes...fortunately, my husband also likes to eat them! We have an apple tree, so I'm always looking for different apple recipes.
Total TimePrep: 20 min. + rising Bake: 20 min.
Makes1 dozen
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, divided
- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup warm water (120° to 130°)
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 1 cup chopped peeled tart apples
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup finely chopped nuts
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- In a bowl, combine 1 cup flour, yeast, sugar and salt. Mix well. Add warm water, oil and egg. Blend on low speed until moistened; beat 3 minutes on medium speed. By hand, gradually stir in remaining flour to make a soft dough. Stir in apples. Spoon into 12 well-greased muffin cups. Let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 30 minutes (do not cover). Bake at 375° for 20 minutes or until golden brown. For topping, combine sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Dip tops of warm puffs in melted butter, then sprinkle with sugar mixture. Serve warm.


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Helga Kolb. American Scientist. Volume 91, Issue 1. Jan/Feb 2003.
The retina is a filmy piece of tissue, barely half a millimeter thick, that lines the inside of the eyeball. The tissue develops from a pouch of the embryonic forebrain, and the retina is therefore considered part of the brain. This most important part of the eye has a basic structure similar to that of a three-layer cake, with the bodies of nerve cells arrayed in three rows separated by two layers packed with synaptic connections. The retina includes both the sensory neurons that respond to light and intricate neural circuits that perform the first stages of image processing; ultimately, an electrical message travels down the optic nerve into the brain for further processing and visual perception.
Intuitively, one might expect that the surface of the retina (the layer exposed to the liquid in the eyeball's vitreous chamber) would contain the sensory cells, the photoreceptors, but actually these cells lie at the very back of the retina; light rays must pass through the entire retina before reaching pigment molecules to excite. This is because the pigment-bearing membranes of the photoreceptors have to be in contact with the eye's pigment epithelial layer, which provides a steady stream of the vital molecule, retinal or vitamin A. Retinal becomes fixed in the photoreceptors' opsin proteins, where this small molecule changes its conformation in response to photons, or packets of light. Once retinal molecules are exposed to light and undergo their conformational change, they are recycled back into the pigment epithelium. This tissue behind the retina is usually very dark because its cells are full of melanin granules. The pigment granules absorb stray photons, preventing their reflection back into the photoreceptors, which would cause images to blur. They also protect the cells from too much exposure to light radiation.
Retina Design According to Lifestyle
All vertebrate retinas contain at least two types of photoreceptors-the familiar rods and cones. Rods are generally used for low-light vision and cones for daylight, bright-colored vision. The variations among animal eyes reveal adaptations to the different environments in which they live. Most fish, frog, turtle and bird retinas have three to five types of cones and consequently very good color vision. Keep in mind that reptiles and fish are "cold blooded" and need to be active in the warm daytime. Most mammals have retinas in which rods predominate. When the number of mammals started to explode as the dinosaurs died out, the Earth was likely a dark place covered in ash and clouds; the tiny, fur-covered early mammals were able to generate their own body heat and developed visual systems sensitive to dim light. Modern rodents such as rats and mice, which are nocturnal animals, still have retinas overwhelmingly dominated by rods; their cones are small in size and only make up 3 to 5 percent of their photoreceptors.
Most other mammalian retinas also have a preponderance of rods, and the cones are often concentrated in specialized regions. In species such as cats and dogs, images focus to a central specialized area, aptly called the area centralis, where cones predominate. The retinas of mammals such as rabbits and squirrels, as well as those of nonmammals like turtles, have a long, horizontal strip of specialized cells called a visual streak, which can detect the fast movement of predators. Primates as well as some birds have front projecting eyes allowing binocular vision and thus depth perception; their eyes are specialized for good daylight vision and are able to discriminate color and fine details. Primates and raptors, like eagles and hawks, have a fovea, a tremendously cone-rich spot devoid of rods where images focus.
Primates, in fact, have what is called a duplex retina, allowing good visual discrimination in all lighting conditions. The fovea contains most of the cones, packed together as tightly as physically possible, and allows good daylight vision. More peripheral parts of the retina can detect the slightest glimmer of photons at night. Most mammals have two types of cones, green-sensitive and blue-sensitive, but primates have three types-red-sensitive as well as the other two. With our cone vision, we can see from gray dawn to the dazzling conditions of high noon with the sun burning down on white sand. Initially the cone photoreceptors themselves can adapt to the surrounding brightness, and circuitry through the retina can further modulate the eye's response. Similarly, the rod photoreceptors and the neural circuitry to which they connect can adapt to lower and lower intensity of light.
Anatomy and Physiology
Understanding the anatomy of the primate retina is essential to understanding its function. Again, the photoreceptors lie in a layer against the back of the eyeball. In the second of three cell layers, called the inner nuclear layer, lie one to four types of horizontal cells, 11 types of bipolar cells and 22 to 30 types of amacrine cells. The numbers vary depending on species. The surface layer of the retina contains about 20 types of ganglion cells. Impulses from the ganglion cells travel to the brain via more than a million optic nerve fibers. The spaces separating these three layers are also anatomically distinct. The region containing synapses linking the photoreceptors with bipolar and horizontal cell dendrites is known as the outer plexiform layer; the area where the bipolar and amacrine cells connect to the ganglion cells is the inner plexi form layer.
Decades of anatomical studies have shed light on how the retina works. Imaging techniques ranging from oldstyle Golgi silver staining, first used over a century ago by Ramon y Cajal, to electron microscopy and modernday antibody staining have revealed the shapes and sizes of the retina's cell types and how the different cells connect to form synapses. Staining techniques have revealed electrical junctions between cells and the identity and location of neurotransmitter receptors and transporters. We now know that the neurotransmitter (chemical signal) passed through the vertical pathways of the retina-from photoreceptors to bipolar cells to ganglion cells-is glutamate. The horizontal and amacrine cells send signals using various excitatory and inhibitory amino acids, catecholamines, peptides and nitric oxide.
Electrophysiological investigations of the retina started 60 years ago. Studies of the optic nerve fibers showed that they could be stimulated to give traditional depolarizing action potentials, like those observed in other neurons. However, the first recordings of impulses within the retina by Gunnar Svaetichin in the 1950s showed very odd responses to light. Neurons in the outer retina-it was not immediately clear which cells he was recording from-responded to stimulation not with depolarizing spikes but with slow hyperpolarization. These "S potentials" are now known to originate with the photoreceptors and to be transmitted to horizontal cells and bipolar cells. The membrane hyperpolarization starts on exposure to light, follows the time course of a light flash and then returns to the baseline value when the light is off. This reflects the counterintuitive fact that both rods and cones release neurotransmitters during the dark, when the membrane is depolarized and sodium ions flow freely across the photoreceptors' cell membranes. When exposed to light, ion channels in the cell membranes close. The cells go into a hyperpolarized state for as long as the light continues to shine on them and do not release a neurotransmitter.
Although both rods and cones respond to light with a slow hyperpolarizing response, they report quite different image properties. Rods, detecting dim light, usually respond to relatively slow changes. Cones, dealing with bright signals, can detect rapid light fluctuations. In both cases, photoreceptors begin the process of decomposing images into separate parts. Both rods and cones respond to light directly over them. Thus, their receptive fields are very narrow.
An image continues to be broken into component elements at the first synapses of the visual pathway, those between photoreceptors and bipolar cells. Different bipolar cells have different types of receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate, allowing the cells to respond to photoreceptor input differently. Some bipolar cells are tuned to faster and some to slower fluctuations in the visual signal; some glutamate receptors resensitize rapidly and others more gradually. The cells thus fire either quickly in succession or relatively slowly in response to the same amount of stimulation. These receptors respond to glutamate by activating what's known as an OFF pathway in the visual process, detecting dark images against a lighter background. (Recall that photoreceptors constantly release glutamate unless exposed to light.) Other bipolar cells have inhibitory glutamate receptors; in other words, they prevent the bipolar cell from firing when the cell is exposed to the neurotransmitter. These receptors activate the ON pathway, detecting light images against a darker background.
Parallel Processing
The parallel sets of visual channels for ON (detecting light areas on dark backgrounds) and OFF (detecting dark areas on light backgrounds) qualities of an image are fundamental to our seeing. Vertebrate vision depends on perceiving the contrast between images and their backgrounds. For example, we read black letters against a white background using the OFF channels that start in the retina. Parallel bipolar channels transmit inputs to ganglion cells. Early in development the architecture of the inner plexiform layer, full of synapses between bipolar and ganglion cells, shows that synaptic connections become segregated in distinct, parallel pathways. Connections occur between ON bipolar cells and ON ganglion cells and also between OFF bipolar cells and OFF ganglion cells in demarcated portions of the inner plexiform layer.
If the retina were simply to transmit opposite-contrast images directly from the photoreceptors to the brain, the resulting vision would probably be coarse-grained and blurry. Further processing in the retina defines precise edges to images and allows us to focus on fine details. The honing of the image starts at the first synaptic level in the retina, where horizontal cells receive input from cones. Each horizontal cell actually receives input from many cones, so its collection area or receptive field is large. Horizontal cells receptive fields become even broader because their plasma membranes fuse with those of neighboring horizontal cells at gap junctions. The membrane potentials of a whole sheet of cells become the same; consequently, horizontal cells respond to light over a very large area. Meanwhile, a single bipolar cell receives input from a handful of cones and thus has a medium-size receptive field.
Whereas a single bipolar cell with its OFF or ON light response would carry a fairly blurry response to its ganglion cell, horizontal cells add an opponent signal that is spatially constrictive, giving the bipolar cell what is known as a center surround organization. The bipolar center signals either ON or OFF, and the horizontal cells add an OFF or ON surround signal, by one of two means. The horizontal cells can either signal the bipolar cell or feed information back to the cone photoreceptors themselves, which then feed forward information to the bipolar cells the cones contact. Feedback to the cones is now proposed to occur by means of an unusual electrical synapse consisting of half a gap junction; these hemi gap junctions are thought to change the ionic environment across the membrane of the cone photoreceptor. This complicated circuit from horizontal cell to cone to bipolar cells is still a subject of hot debate in the community of retina scientists.
Horizontal-cell function has occupied many vision scientists for decades, and much is now known about the role of these cells in the organization of visual messages. Horizontal cells respond to more than the photoreceptors that link to them. Feedback signals from the inner plexiform layer influence horizontal-cell activity as well. These feedback signals are transmitted via substances such as dopamine, nitric oxide and retinoic acid. The result is that horizontal cells modulate the photoreceptor signal under different lighting conditions-allowing signaling to become less sensitive in bright light and more sensitive in dim light-as well as shaping the receptive field of the bipolar cells, as we have seen. The horizontal cells can even make the bipolar cells' response color-coded, all apparently through feedback circuits to the cones.
The ganglion cells have a receptive field organized as concentric circles. The amacrine-cell circuitry in the inner plexiform layer conveys additional information to the ganglion cell, possibly sharpening the boundary between center and surround even further than the horizontal-cell input does. In human retinas, two basic types of ganglion cells-ON center and OFF center– form the major output of the retina to the visual centers in the brain. ON-center ganglion cells are activated when a spot of light falls in the center of their receptive field and are inactivated when light falls on the field's periphery OFF-center ganglion cells react in the opposite way: Their activity increases when the periphery of their receptive field is lit and decreases when light falls on the center of the field. (The receptive fields of ganglion cells are modeled as the difference between Gaussian distributions, giving them a so-called Mexican-hat shape.)
In contrast to the rest of the retina, the human fovea contains midget ganglion cells, which have minute dendritic trees connected in a one-to-one ratio with midget bipolar cells. The channel from midget bipolar to midget ganglion cell carries information from a single cone, thus relaying a point-to– point image from the fovea to the brain. Each red or green cone in the central fovea connects to two midget ganglion cells, so at all times each cone can either transmit a dark-on-light (OFF) signal or a light-on-dark (ON) message. The message that goes to the brain carries both spatial and spectral information of the finest resolution.
Messages from blue cones are not processed in the same way as from red and green cones for some reason, possibly because the blue system is older in evolutionary terms. Blue cones are found in the retinas of most species. The typical mammalian retina also has green cones; primates have the additional red cones. Blue cones transmit information through a special blue cone bipolar cell to a different type of ganglion cell, which can carry both a blue ON and a yellow OFF response.
Electrical recordings show that several types of ganglion cells do not have concentric organization, especially in animals whose eyes lack a fovea. This includes most nonmammalian species and mammalian species that have retinas with visual streaks. Compared with species with foveas, the species with visual streaks do even more image processing in the retina itself before sending a message to the brain; their retinas can immediately synthesize information about image motion and direction of motion.
Building Images with Amacrine Cells There is more to understand about the messages ganglion cells receive before they transmit a signal to the brain. For that, it is important to appreciate the organization of the inner plexiform layer, where 22 or more different types of amacrine cells make synaptic connections with about 20 different types of ganglion cells.
It was already clear from Cajal's description in the 19th century that amacrine-, ganglion- and bipolar-cell dendrites and axons were organized into distinct layers; Cajal himself divided the inner plexiform layer into five strata. But what sorts of synapses were formed among the tangle of intermeshing processes and what this organization meant were not immediately apparent. Electron microscopy helped to unravel this neurocircuitry. Now the interconnections of nine types of bipolar cells, 14 types of amacrine cells and eight types of ganglion cells are understood quite well. We can say we are half way to the goal of understanding the neural interplay between all the nerve cells in the retina.
Much is now known about what types of neurotransmitters different amacrine cells contain and about the organization of receptors at the different synapses. Amacrine cells are about equally divided between those that use glycine and those that use GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) neurotransmitters.
Glycinergic amacrine cells are usually "small field." Their processes can spread vertically across several strata within the inner plexiform layer, but they extend relatively short distances horizontally. Glycinergic amacrine cells receive information from bipolar cells and transmit information to ganglion cells and to other bipolar and amacrine cells. Some glycinergic amacrine cells provide interconnections between ON and OFF systems of bipolar and ganglion cells. The most famous of these is called the All cell; the All and a GABA-releasing amacrine cell called A17 are pivotal in the circuitry of rod– based, dim-light vision in the mammalian retina. These cells aren't found in mammalian species that are active solely in daylight and have very few rods-for example, squirrels.
In the earlier discussion of ON and OFF channels emanating from cones, I neglected to talk about the channels from rod cells. Whereas cones connect in a direct pipeline to bipolar cells to ganglion cells, the bipolar cells that receive input from rods do not synapse with ganglion cells directly. The bipolar cells connected to rods are all of one type, solely transmitting an ON signal, and use the All and A17 amacrine cells as intermediaries to get signals to ganglion cells. The small-field All cell collects from about 30 rod-connected bipolar cells and transmits a depolarizing message both to ON (light-detecting) cone bipolar cells and to their ON ganglion cells and to OFF cone bipolar cells and OFF ganglion cells. It is as if the All cells developed in the rod-dominated parts of the retina as an afterthought to the cone-to-ganglion cell architecture and now takes advantage of the preexisting cone pathway circuitry.
At the same time, the A17 amacrine cell collects rod messages from thousands of rod-connected bipolar cells. It somehow amplifies and modulates the information from the rod bipolar cells to transmit to the All cells, but how it does this is not completely understood. In any case, the rod pathway with its series of convergent and then divergent intermediary neurons is clearly well designed to collect and amplify scattered vestiges of light for twilight and night vision.
Wide-field amacrine cells sometimes stretch horizontally across the inner plexiform layer for hundreds of microns and interact with hundreds of bipolar cells and many ganglion cells. Such amacrines are usually confined to one of the five different strata of the inner plexiform layer and create elegant meshworks of dendrites. Usually, they emit GABA as a neurotransmitter. Sometimes they connect to neighboring amacrine cells by gap junctions, increasing their sphere of influence and the speed at which signals transmit across large areas of retina.
Most GABA-releasing amacrine cells also release at least one other neuroactive substance. The secondary substances are usually neuromodulators rather than fast-acting neurotransmitters. The substances include peptides "substance P," somatostatin, vasointestinal peptide and cholecystokinin-as well as the more familiar biomolecules serotonin, dopamine, acetylcholine, adenosine and nitric oxide. A variety of receptors have been found on ganglion and bipolar cells-for example, receptors for peptides, nicotine and muscarine (mushroom toxin) in addition to different forms of GABA receptors-indicating that amacrine cells are releasing such agents. Most of these neuromodulators are not active at conventional synapses; their release is thought to influence neurons even at a distance by diffusion. Such neuromodulators apparently influence the retinal circuitry under changing light conditions or even cause retinal activity to reflect the different times of day in the circadian dock.
A specialized amacrine cell releases dopamine when the retina is stimulated with intermittent flashing light. Dopamine causes the gap junctions among horizontal cells to become uncoupled, reducing the size of their receptive fields. Furthermore, the neurotransmitter affects the glutamate receptor on horizontal cells so that the amplitude of the light response declines. Again in the inner plexiform layer, dopamine closes gap junctions, this time the ones that link All amacrine cells in large networks. The resuiting uncoupling of the All cells makes the effective field of influence of the rod-system amacrine cells much less significant in lighter conditions. Similarly in bright light conditions, another wide-field amacrine cell releases nitric oxide to uncouple the All cell from the cone-bipolar system. All this removes the interference of the largefield rod pathway from the narrowfield cone pathways.
The above broad sketch of retinal circuitry suggests that the retina is remarkably complex. As vision research advances, the retina seems to take on an increasingly active role in perception. Although we do not fully understand the neural code that the ganglion-cell axons send as trains of spikes into the brain, we are coming close to understanding how ensembles of ganglion cells respond differently to aspects of the visual scene and how fields of influence on particular ganglion cells are constructed. Much of the construction of the visual images does seem to take place in the retina itself, although the final perception of sight is indisputably done in the brain.
Given how much is now known, it might be fair to ask, are we finished with the retina, or are there more surprises on the horizon? Earlier surprises included finding that much of the information transfer depended on electrical connections among cells rather than standard chemical synapses. For example, the major neural pathway from the rods depends on direct electrical connections. Some other fast-acting signals pass from amacrine cells into ganglion cells at gap junctions. Neuromodulators change the milieu of the neuron circuits but act from a distance by diffusion rather than at closely apposed synapses. Again, this is a surprising concept compared to the previous view that all neural interactions take place via neurotransmitters at specialized isolated patches of membrane apposition-that is, synapses. The most recent surprise has been that a previously unknown ganglion cell type appears to function as a giant photoreceptor itself, without needing input from rods or cones. This ganglion's cell membrane contains light-reactive molecules known as melanopsins. Given such unexpected findings, it appears that there may still be much more to learn about how the retina works.


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The remote Abrolhos Islands and associated reefs lie in the Indian Ocean around 80 kilometres off the coast of Geraldton, Western Australia. It is one of the world's most important seabird breeding sites, and is the centre of Western Australia's largest single-species fishery, the western rock lobster fishery. A small seasonal population of fishermen live on the island, and a limited number of tourists are permitted for day trips, but most of the land area is off limits as conservation habitat. The islands were declared a national park by the Western Australian government in July 2019. [Source: Wikipedia]
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I'm a big fan of classic cars and motorbikes, I've got three altogether. My 1987 Austin Mini is my daily runner and I love it. It's a bit sick at the moment, so I've got to look after it! Luckily for sick Minis there are lots of parts available on numerous websites and always so many friendly people to give you advice.
But don't worry, I do hire big "modern" cars for holidays; my family appreciates the comfort, luggage capacity and above all the safety…and of course, the geek in me likes the gadgets! But there's something I do in modern cars that I never do in my old "bangers"… I nearly fall asleep at the wheel!
I'm not saying that modern cars should break down and make squeaky noises like old cars, but what about the emotional experience?
Take, for example, the cool commercial for the Peugeot 208. It's the Wacky Races!
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65182013[/vimeo] He even gets Penelope at the end, I can't believe it!
I loved the Wacky Races as a child (and secretly still do), and knew that Transportation & Mobility was where I wanted to work when I grew up. Peugeot's commercial is so well done, but it got me thinking, which car would I rather be in? The 208 or one of the Wacky racing cars, well I know for sure which would be more fun!
And that's just it; modern cars are just not fun anymore (except of course expensive thoroughbred sports cars). Modern cars are much safer, they're quieter, have better music systems, they are an engineering miracle! But, I feel we've lost the pleasure of being mobile. I have more fun being mobile when jogging than driving a modern car down a country lane at 100kph!
Peugeot's purpose "Motion & Emotion" really speaks to me, it really is that. Jump up and down with joy or sit like a sac when you're sad. We cannot disconnect our emotions with our motions.
What do you think should happen? Should future mobility be more emotional no matter if we take the train, a car, a bicycle or a tram?
In the mean time I'll still be keeping my 1987 Austin Mini 😉
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The term DNA is an abbreviation of the genetic material in living things. The beginning of the science of genetics dates back to genetic laws drawn up by the scientist Mendel in 1865. The date, a turning point in the history of science, is referred to in verse 65 of Surat al-Kahf, or verse 18:65.
When the appearance of the letters D-N-A (Dal-Nun-Alif in Arabic) side by side in places in the Qur'an is examined, they appear most frequently in verse 65 of Surat al-Kahf. The letters D-N-A appear side by side three times in this verse, in a most incomparable manner. In no other verse of the Qur'an do the letters "DNA" appear consecutively so often.
The number of this exceptional verse in which the term DNA appears so strikingly is 18:65. These numbers are an expression of the date when the science of genetics began. This cannot be regarded as a coincidence. Because only in verse 18:65 of the Qur'an do the letters "DNA" appear three times consecutively. This is something miraculous, because the scientific world only came up with the name DNA (Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid) comparatively recently.
In Surat al-Kahf, which refers to DNA and the year 1865 when the science of genetics began, DNA is repeated 7 times, as is RNA (the Arabic letters Ra-Nun-Alif). Like DNA, the RNA molecule is a molecule giving rise to genetic structure. For that reason, the appearance of DNA and RNA an equal number of times in this Surat is further proof that these molecules were referred to in the Qur'an hundreds of years ago.


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Parents still enforcing "clean your plate" rule through teen years
Parents often tell their kids to be a member of the "clean plate club" -- even when their children are in their teens.
A study published online on April 22 in Pediatrics showed that up to two-thirds of parents still encourage their adolescents to finish all the food on their plates. This advice could prevent children and teens from learning healthy eating habits on their own, the study's authors warned.
"I was surprised at some of the parent behaviors, like feeling that their children should clean their plates and not waste food," study author Katie Loth, a registered dietician, doctoral candidate and research assistant at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, said to HealthDay. "In the 1950s, cleaning your plate meant something different. Portion sizes have gotten bigger over time, and if you encourage kids to rely on environmental indicators, like how much food is on their plates or the time of day, they'll lose the ability to rely on internal cues to know whether they're hungry or full."
Researchers looked at a study conducted in 2010 and another study conducted during 2009 to 2010 to obtain data. More than 2,200 teen and almost 3,500 parents from Minnesota were included in the studies; the average age of the teen was 14.4 years old.
Parents were asked if they ever pressured their children to eat through affirming statements like "My child should always eat all of the food on his or her plate" or "If my child says, 'I am not hungry,' I try to get him or her to eat anyway." The questions were based on the Child Feeding Questionnaire, which includes an eight-item scale that judged a parent's attempt to control their kid's eating. The surveys also included the four-item "Pressure-to-Eat Subscale", which looked at how much effort the parent was putting into encouraging their child to eat more.
Teens were asked about their dietary intake, weight status, and other linked factors at school.
Instructing teens on how much they should eat was very common, the study showed. Telling adolescents to eat less was more common for parents who had overweight or obese children, while telling kids to eat more was more common in those who weren't overweight.
Most concerning, was that some parents still encouraged their teens to finish their plates, even if the child was overweight. Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past three decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. One-third of children in 2010 were deemed overweight or obese, with about 18 percent of all U.S. kids between 5 and 19 being obese.
- Breast-feeding may not stave off childhood obesity like previously thought
- Fast food frequency linked to asthma, eczema severity in children, teens
- Vogue daughter put on strict diet by mom now at "healthy weight"
"Parents are doing way too much in controlling the way kids eat," Dr. Elaine Schulte, a general pediatrician at Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital in Ohio who was not involved in the study, said to MedPage Today.
Schulte suggested that parents should keep more healthy food at home, and actively teach their kids healthy eating habits and which foods to choose, instead of forcing them onto their children.
"(Parents) need to back down in terms of the way they are helping children figure out how to eat," she said. "When you're a teenager, you don't want to be controlled; parents need to help regulate what their children put in their mouth, and it's not by telling them what to eat."


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Bass holds Herd to two hits
Chris Schwinden took the mound as a Bison for the last time in 2011 Saturday night, taking the loss in the Bisons' 3-0 finale of a two-game series in Lehigh Valley Saturday night.
Schwinden allowed two earned runs on six hits over 4 1/3 innings, striking out five with one walk.
Kevin Frandsen's triple brought home Brian Bass and Pete Orr in the third for a 2-0 IronPigs lead.
The Bisons mustered just two hits – both Jordany Valdespin singles – against Lehigh Valley starter Brian Bass, who shut out Buffalo for eight innings with 10 strikeouts to one walk.
Rich Franklin singled against lefty reliever Mike O'Connor in the fifth, stole second and third and scored on a single by Kevin Frandsen.
The Bisons play a doubleheader in Scranton tomorrow, the opener of their final series of the season.
Justin De Fratus locked up the save, retiring Raul Reyes, Fernando Perez and Luis Figueroa in order in the ninth.
Game Notes: Schwinden finished with 134 strikeouts on the season, leading all Bisons… The Bisons lost the season series with the IronPigs, 9-7.


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J. C. Penney Company, Inc. and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Announce Strategic Alliance
Leading Retailer Joins Forces with Premier Lifestyle Brand to Create In-Store and Online Retail Experience Featuring Martha Stewart Products and Know-How
J. C. Penney Company Invests $38.5 Million in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia at $3.50 Per Share for 16.6 Percent Stake
Commercial Agreement Expected to Generate At Least $200 Million in Revenues for MSLO
MSLO to Pay a Special Dividend of $0.25 Per Share
Dec 07, 2011, 08:00 ET
PLANO, Texas and NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) ("J. C. Penney") and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO) ("MSLO") today announced they have entered into a strategic alliance and will join forces to create a unique and comprehensive retail experience featuring Martha Stewart products, know-how and advice.
Beginning in February 2013, customers will be able to visit distinct Martha Stewart retail stores inside the majority of jcpenney department stores. These Martha Stewart stores are intended to be destinations where consumers can experience an engaging and inspiring environment and buy a variety of affordable, high-quality home and lifestyle merchandise designed and curated by Martha Stewart and her team. Staffed by trained associates, the Martha Stewart stores will also give consumers direct access to the products and educational tips that have made Martha Stewart America's leading lifestyle expert. J. C. Penney will market and source the products.
Under the terms of this 10-year commercial agreement, the two companies will also jointly develop an e-commerce site, expected to launch in 2013. The site will offer Martha Stewart expertise and enable consumers to purchase a wide range of home and lifestyle products, including those sold in the Martha Stewart stores inside jcpenney, and other merchandise designed or selected by Martha Stewart. MSLO is expected to receive in excess of $200 million from J. C. Penney over the initial 10-year contract period.
J. C. Penney has invested $38.5 million for 11 million newly issued shares of Class A common stock at $3.50 a share, for a 16.6 percent stake in MSLO. In addition, J. C. Penney will have representation on MSLO's Board of Directors.
MSLO also announced today that it will pay a special dividend of $0.25 per share on Dec. 30 to shareholders of record as of Dec. 19.
Ron Johnson, chief executive officer of J. C. Penney Company, Inc., said, "I have long admired Martha Stewart's extraordinary influence on the way American families live and enjoy their lives. For nearly two decades she has been the primary person we turn to for advice regarding food, entertaining, decorating, and celebrating life's memorable moments. The opportunity to work with Martha and create an entirely new shopping experience, both in-store and online, is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The Martha Stewart brand embodies quality, beauty, inspiration and possibility and we intend for Martha Stewart stores to be a key centerpiece of our new strategy to transform jcpenney into America's Favorite Store."
Martha Stewart, founder and director of MSLO, said, "Ron Johnson is a true innovator and someone who has been fundamentally redefining the retail experience. I am greatly impressed with his plans for changing an American classic, J. C. Penney, to make it a very new and different shopping experience. To partner with J. C. Penney, Ron and his extraordinary team is a big and important step in realizing my dream of putting our Martha Stewart designed products within easy reach of an even broader consumer audience. I'm also very excited to work with J. C. Penney to create an online shopping experience, which will offer a broad range of Martha Stewart products. I cannot wait to get started on this new venture."
Mr. Johnson added, "The objective of our partnership with MSLO is to unlock the full potential of Martha Stewart's extraordinary assets in new and exciting ways. Our investment in their company will allow J. C. Penney to share in the upside of the work we do together both as an investor and as a retail partner. We look forward to working with the entire MSLO leadership team through our representation on the MSLO Board of Directors to create long-term economic value for shareholders."
Lisa Gersh, president and chief operating officer of MSLO, said, "The strategic alliance we've announced today with J. C. Penney strengthens our balance sheet, will enhance the reach of our brands and expand our vibrant merchandising and media presence for the benefit of all of our partners. We believe this alliance is an important step in positioning our company for the future. J. C. Penney also recognizes the powerful cross-promotional value and reach this alliance represents in light of our magazine, digital and broadcast properties. We are excited to work closely with the J. C. Penney team to help drive the success of our respective businesses."
Blackstone Advisory Partners served as financial advisor to MSLO in connection with the J. C. Penney investment, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP served as its legal advisor. J. C. Penney's financial advisor was Peter J. Solomon Company and its legal advisor was Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
About J. C. Penney Company, Inc.
J. C. Penney Company, Inc., one of America's leading retailers, operates over 1,100 jcpenney department stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, as well as one of the largest apparel and home furnishing sites on the Internet, jcp.com. Serving more than half of America's families each year, the jcpenney brand offers a wide array of private, exclusive and national brands which reflect the Company's vision to be America's shopping destination for discovering great styles at compelling prices. Traded as "JCP" on the New York Stock Exchange, the $17.8 billion retailer is transforming its organization to build a sustainable, profitable enterprise that serves its customers, engages its associates and rewards its shareholders. For more information, visit www.jcpenney.net.
About Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (MSLO) is a leading provider of original "how-to" information, inspiring and engaging consumers with unique lifestyle content and high-quality products. MSLO is organized into the following business segments: Publishing, Broadcasting and Merchandising. MSLO is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MSO.
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